White daisies emerging from a small mound of snow against a pale blue background.

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Mae West

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Mae West's joke plays on snow drifting and a person drifting from purity. Snow White is famously pure, so drifting implies she wandered off that path. The wit is a sly, self-mocking wink about her own reputation.

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